A39224:102
Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches
Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils constituted in order according to the Scriptures as also the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular Reforming Congregational Churches, humbly proposed as ... a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties the Presbyterians and the Congregationals ... / written by John Eliot.Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils constituted in order according to the Scriptures as also the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular Reforming Congregationall Churches, humbly proposed as ... a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties the Presbyterians and the Congregationals ... / written by John Eliot.
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For, if several Nations should need and desire to hold Communion of Councils, who shall choose the Persons or Instruments, by whom this Communion shall be held and acted?
For, if several Nations should need and desire to hold Communion of Councils, who shall chuse the Persons or Instruments, by whom this Communion shall be held and acted?
If Princes choose them, it is not a regular Ecclesiastical Council. If Churches choose▪ and send them▪ shall some Churches only choose them, or all the Churches? •f some only; who? and why they, and not others▪ and how can their act interest and oblige all?
If Princes chuse them, it is not a regular Ecclesiastical Council. If Churches chuse▪ and send them▪ shall some Churches onely chuse them, or all the Churches? •f some onely; who? and why they, and not others▪ and how can their act interest and oblige all?
If all the Churches must choose, then Immediately, or • Delegates: Immediately, it is unfeasible, especially to act in knowledge and prudence; but mediately by their Confidants and Representatives they may.
If all the Churches must chuse, then Immediately, or • Delegates: Immediately, it is unfeizible, especially to act in knowledge and prudence; but mediately by their Confidents and Representatives they may.